Posted on 12/10/2009 7:19:09 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Edited on 12/10/2009 7:40:48 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
McDonald's Corp. will start offering breakfast for a buck with the launch of a national dollar menu in January.
The breakfast dollar menu will be backed with advertising across the U.S., and will feature five items: two sausage sandwiches, a sausage burrito, a 12-ounce coffee and a hash brown. The menu may feature some variations based on markets.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Breakfast: $1 at McDonalds.
Lunch: $1 at Burger King (Whopper Jr).
Dinner: $1 with careful shopping at WalMart.
Upshot: anyone can get by with decent meals by recycling 60 soda cans per day ($0.05 each) or working 25 minutes at minimum wage. Few indeed cannot earn $3/day in this country.
Methinks the “hunger problem” has been solved.
They aren’t really doing great, they just aren’t taking it on the chin as bad as their competitors.
If you purchased each food item listed...it would cost you $5.00 (still a bargain though!).
In our area, they have 2 Egg McMuffins for $3.00. On Saturday mornings (on way to sports) we bring our own beverages; and buy 2 sets. For $6.00 I couldn’t make that at home.
A good McDonalds will make more on breakfast than lunch
However our local MD has had a regular "special" of two hashbrowns for $1 for quite a while.
I think the breakfast fare is about the only edible stuff on the menu, except maybe for the fries. They should serve it all day.
True, a drink at McDonald’s costs a nickel to make, the cup actually costs more than the drink, but if they charged .15 for a drink, they couldn’t charge a buck for a meal that costs .90.
I bet they do well during the shopping season too. People are out and want a quick bite. Their stock seems to be relatively flat lately, though.
McDonald's coffee should be free. It tastes like recycled mop water. Awful.
Some franchisees are total boneheads.
McDonald’s coffee should be free. It tastes like recycled mop water. Awful.
Which fast food joints do you recommend for coffee? I’m on the road some and would appreciate your info.
They’re dealing in secondary product. The profit at McDs has always been in the beverages, the cup they put the soda in costs more than the syrup to make the soda, in general there’s about 400% profit on most beverage sales in fast food. The dollar menu is a loss leader. And with Taco Bell entering the breakfast arena lately, and entering on the under cut, this is a defensive move to protect their breakfast market.
It’s called Piece of McToast.
“...recycling 60 soda cans per day ($0.05 each)...”
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I must have missed something.
Can you really get a nickel for a single soda can these days?
Some franchisees are total boneheads.
Agree that’s why I’m surprised that the regional group hasn’t came down on them. Also I’m surprised that the local health inspectors haven’t had some input.
Excellent, resourceful, common-sense post by the way.....
McD’s #2 breakfast rocks!
Right you are! Not only feed them but provide lots of entry level jobs for kids and make a respectable profit in the process.
The other thing is that you can never find the Grey Poupon there. That really fries leftoids.
Imagine their dismay at the most recent news that the food quality of school (GOVERNMENT PROVIDED) lunches was actually far below that of fast food franchises.
BTW, the food stamp bureaucracy assumes that a person needs 5 bucks/day.
You came to the right place. I spent almost 25 years traveling worldwide doing telecom work, most of which was done at night. We lived on coffee during the peak years of the cellular build out. In the USA, Waffle House has the best affordable coffee, especially if it's 3:00AM. Krispy Cream and Dunkin' Doughnuts are also passable usually. The others are basically mop water. Otherwise, I used make my own in the hotel using a coffee press, a Wisperlite stove and spring water. It didn't take me long being on the road to realize that eating fast food every day will kill you quick. It kills your energy level and sends your cholesterol through the roof. When I was traveling whenever possible I avoided fast food like the plague.....
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